1、英语听力2unit 6Unit 6Task 1【答案】A.dbaecB.a【原文】Laura usually leaves the offices of Quest Productions at about 5 oclock, but last Monday she left at 5:30. She wanted to get home by 6:30 and she ran to the bus stop but she couldnt get on a bus. There were too many people and not enough buses. Laura was desp
2、erate to get home so she decided to go by tube. In the station she went to one of the automatic ticket machines but she didnt have enough change, so she had to join the queue at the ticket window. She bought her ticket and ran to the escalator. Laura went to the platform and waited for the tube. It
3、arrived and the crowd moved forward. Laura was pushed into the train. It was almost full but she was given a seat by a man with a moustache. Laura thanked him and sat down. She started to read her newspaper. In the tunnel the train stopped suddenly and Laura was thrown to the floor together with the
4、 man with the moustache. Somebody screamed. The lights went out. It was quarter past 6 on a cold, wet December evening.Task 2【答案】A.1) a 2) b 3) d 4) cB.1) T 2) T 3) FC.wondered; television plays; exciting; every cigarette lighter; tape recorder; held in a certain way; the touch of a gold ring agains
5、t the hand of; reveal; How wrong they were【原文】X was a secret agent. He had rented a furnished room in a provincial town not far from the public park and had been there two weeks. He was standing at the window looking out at the dull beds of geraniums, the park gates and the cold, uninviting statue o
6、f Queen Victoria that stood across the street from him, It was raining hard and the few people who passed by looked wet and miserable. X was miserable, too. How, he wondered, could anybody think there was anything interesting about the life of a secret agent? He knew it was because people had seen s
7、o many television plays about glamorous spies that they thought the life of a secret agent was exciting. They were convinced that every cigarette lighter concealed a secret tape recorder; that a fountain pen held in a certain way would open a locked door, that the touch of a gold ring against the ha
8、nd of an enemy would make him reveal all his secrets. How wrong they were! He looked round his room. The wallpaper was in the worst possible taste, the pictures horrible, the carpet worn, dirty and faded; and he was cold. This was the third Monday he had come to the window to look out. He prayed it
9、would be the last. As if in answer to his prayer, a certain meeting he had been sent to investigate was about to take place. He took out his camera. Just beneath the statue two women had stopped to speak. He knew one of them, and it was she who pointed in his direction. The other woman looked up tow
10、ards him and in that brief moment he photographed her.Task 3【答案】A.NamesIdeal CareersHarrySailorNoraFarmer(if she were a man)RobertCivil engineerPeterRacing driver or explorerB.1) a 2) b 3) c 4) b 5) d【原文】Harry: Well, Robert, have you made up your mind yet what you want to do when you leave college?N
11、ora: Oh Harry. Surely hes a bit young to decide on his career. He hasnt even got to college yet.Harry: Not at all, Nora. Its wisest to decide in good time. Look at me, for example. I really wanted to be a sailor, but now I spend my days sitting at a desk in an office. Yes, its silly to train for the
12、 wrong job. And after all, Robert will be going to college soon.Nora: Now if I were a man Id be a farmer. To see the crops growing-thats my idea of a good life.Harry: Yes, and to see the money rolling in is more important still.Robert: Well, thats not the way I look at it, Dad. Its the job I care ab
13、out, not the money.Harry: Maybe not; but youll learn to care about the money too, when youve got a family to keep. Nora: And of course Peter well, hes keen to be a racing driver, or else an explorer.Robert: Oh, Peters not old enough to make up his mind about such things.Harry: You havent answered my
14、 question yet, Robert. What would you like to do? Nora: Are you sure you dont want to be a farmer, Robert? Or a market gardener?Robert: No, Im sorry Mum, but I dont want to at all. Id rather be a civil engineer. I want to build roads and bridges.Harry: Not ships? Isnt it better to be a shipbuilding
15、engineer?Robert: Look here, is it my career were planning, or yours?Harry: All fight, all right, theres no need to lose your temper. But youd better win that scholarship first.Task 4【答案】I. correspondents; columnistA. may not need eitherB. to go to places where events take place and write stories abo
16、ut themII. first; bigger; better; who will soon leave to work for other peopleIII. working hours; free time; work long hours to begin with【原文】Here are some of the things a young man or woman should not do when he first asks an editor for a job: He should not tell the editor that he wants to be a for
17、eign correspondent or a columnist. Very probably the editor does not need either. He wants a reporter who will go to such places as government offices and police stations and write a true story of what is happening there. Being a foreign correspondent or a columnist will come later. A young person s
18、hould not tell tile editor that newspaper work is only the first step on the way to bigger and better jobs, such as those in government. The editor must take a lot of time and trouble teaching someone to be a good newspaperman or woman. He does not like the idea of teaching people who are soon going
19、 to leave him to work for someone else. A young journalist should accept the working hours and free time the editor gives him. As a new journalist, it is very probable that he will work longer hours than others and work on weekends. The editor did the same when he was a young newspaperman with no ex
20、perience. He expects a journalist to understand how things are on a newspaper.Task 5【答案】A.1) acd 2) abeB.1) she is the wrong sex 2) she wears the wrong clothes【原文】SYLVIA: Weve got a new manager in our department.LARRY: Oh? You hoped to get that job, didnt you?SYLVIA: Yes, I did.LARRY: Im sorry. That
21、s too bad. Who is it? Who got the job, I mean?SYLVIA: Someone called Drexler. Carl Drexler. Hes been with the company only two years. Ive been here longer. And I know more about the job, too!LARRY: Hmm. Why do you think they gave it to him and not to you?SYLVIA: Because Im the wrong sex, of course !
22、LARRY: You mean you didnt get the job because youre a woman?SYLVIA: Yes, that was probably it! It isnt fair.LARRY: What sort of clothes does he wear?SYLVTA: A dark suit. White shirt. A tie. Why?LARRY: Perhaps that had something to do with it.SYLVIA: You mean you think I didnt get the job because I c
23、ome to work in jeans and a sweater?LARRY: Its possible, isnt it?SYLVIA: Do you really think I should wear different clothes?LARRY: Well. . . perhaps you should think about it.SYLVTA: Why should I wear a skirt? Or a dress?LARRY: Im not saying you should. Im saying you should think about it. Thats all
24、!SYLVIA: Why should I do that? Im good at my job! Thats the only important thing!LARRY: Hmm. Perhaps it should be the only important thing. But it isnt. Not inthis company.Task 6【答案】A.Former JobsWhen Laid-offWhy Laid-off1st manCar salesmanRecentlyLow sales, due to the increase of interest rates2nd m
25、anWorker at a vacuum cleaner plant10 months agoPlant moved to Singapore where workers are paid much lessB.1st speaker(bcd) 2nd speaker(ae)C.1) F 2) F【原文】Al: Is this the right line to file a claim?Bob: Yeah. Its the same line for everything. You just stand here and wait.Al: Oh. Is there always such a
26、 long line?Bob: Every week. Sometimes longer. Is this your first time here?Al: Yes.Bob: What happened? Your plant closed down?Al: No. Im a car salesman, or, I was a car salesman. But we just arent selling cars. Its the interest rates. Two years ago, I averaged ten new cars a month. Do you know how m
27、any cars I sold last month? One. One car to a lady who had the cash. But the interest rates are up again. The boss let three of us go. How about you?Bob: I worked at a vacuum cleaner plant with about fifty workers. We put in a good days work. But the machinery was getting old. As a matter of fact, t
28、he whole plant was old. So the management decided to build a new plant. You know where? In Singapore. The workers here made about seven dollars an hour, a couple of people made eight or nine an hour. You know how much theyre paying the workers in Singapore? $2.50 an hour! Anyway, all fifty of us got
29、 laid off.Al: How long ago was that?Bob: They closed down ten months ago.Al: Any luck finding another job?Bob: Nothing. I have one, sometimes two, interviews a week. Last week I thought I had something. They liked my experience with machines. But I never heard from them again.Al: At least you know s
30、omething about machines. All I can do is talk.Bob: Maybe youll talk yourself into another job. Good luck. Ill see you here next week.Al: I hope not. I hope Ill have something by then.Task 7【答案】A.1) F 2) F 3) T 4) F 5) T 6) FB.1) According to the first speaker, it is frustrating because the teacher c
31、annot see clearly the results of his efforts.2) According to the second speaker, English language teaching is a good job, because it guarantees a stable income and regular working hours and means less pressure. He also likes the way elderly teacher are.【原文】Interviewer: Do you prefer what youre doing to teaching?John Smith: Yes, one of the things I found a bit frustrating about teaching was that it was rather,very intangible than um, especially if youre teaching in England and most of the students know
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